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Join us for various free activities on Prešeren Day

We invite you to spend the Prešeren Day at the Slovenian School Museum. We have prepared a range of free activities for visitors of all ages. On the festive Saturday, 8 February 2025, the museum will be open from 9 am to 6 pm. EXHIBITIONS You can visit: Interactive permanent exhibition School Rules! Temporary exhibition …

School Chronicle 2024 published

The School Chronicle 2024 has been published in two volumes and three issues. The first volume is thematic and is dedicated to the 250th anniversary of the promulgation of Maria Theresa’s General School Ordinance. It contains a translation of the General School Ordinance into modern Slovenian, a report on the events related to the commemoration …

SEASON’S GREETINGS

  May we welcome the New Year with curiosity and courage, May our acts of compassion bring smiles to people’s faces, And may we find in every challenge an opportunity for growth and learning.   Dear visitors and colleagues,   We wish you a peaceful Christmas and an excellent New Year.       The …

6 December – a holiday for education

Ljubljana, 6 December 2024 – 250 years ago, on 6 December 1774, Empress Maria Theresa signed and issued the General School Ordinance. This was the first state law on primary education to apply in the major part of the territory of today’s Slovenia. Today, a quarter of a millennium later, the Slovenian School Museum commemorated …

For the Happiness of the Nations”: closing event to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Maria Theresa’s General School Ordinance

6 December 2024 at 12:00 noon Slovenian School Museum Plečnikov trg 1, Ljubljana   The year 2024 marks a quarter of a millennium since the publication of the “General School Ordinance for all German primary schools in all imperial and royal hereditary lands” (Allgemeine Schulordnung für die deutschen Normal-, Haupt- und Trivialschulen in sämmtlichen Kaiserl. …

Slovenian School Museum 2025 Calendar

The Slovenian School Museum has been producing its calendar since 2009 to highlight various education-related topics. This year’s calendar, the 17th in a row, is dedicated to the 250th anniversary of compulsory education in Slovenia. The calendar’s depictions are taken from books and related works from the second half of the 18th century.   250 …

Classroom in the Cloud

Invitation to the 2nd Expert Meeting to mark the completion of the new permanent exhibition School Rules! entitled Classroom in the Cloud 26 November 2024 at 10 am Slovenian School Museum, Plečnikov trg 1, Ljubljana   The classroom comes to life in its full potential when users are guided and stimulated in the learning process …

We took part in a round table at the Typhlological Museum in Zagreb

On the occasion of the White Cane Safety Day, we participated in a round table at the Typhlological Museum in Zagreb. The theme of the discussion was “The past and the perspective of interstate and interinstitutional cooperation in the field of blind culture and care for the blind”. The discussion was hosted by Morana Vouk …

Slovenian School Museum presentation film

We invite you to feel the pulse of our museum through the film and to visit us in the future.

Watch the film